= TheSalt Lake Tribune BUSINESS_ Tuesday, November20, 2001 5 T Hq E S A Vv V Y C 0 N $ U M E B RECALLSALERT From the Good Housekeeping Institute The following products and vehicles were recalled by the Consumer Product Racial Profiling Happens in Retail Settings, Too Racial profiling has been well-documented and widely criticized. But the perpetrators of racial profiling are not always police officers. And the Even Oprah Winfrey has fallen victim to retail racism. Winfrey told Good Housekeepingthat one day when she was shopping on Madison Avenue victimsare not always men. in NewYork City with her hairdresser, they rang According to an investigationin thelatest issue ,the doorbell ofa cashmere store, but no one would of Good Housekeeping magazine, many black buzz them in. women endure an insidious andoftenless-visible “We could see that people were insidethestore, form of profiling — being followed, harassed, hu- and/we rang and we knocked on the window, and miliated or just ignored because they are women of color. It happens largely in stores, but also in hotels, restaurants, airports and on thestreet. WHEREIT HAPPENS equally respected,” he says. “People havethea spending power of African-Americans. In recent as following an innocentperson,are inevitable. Michelle Alexander,director of the Racial Justice Project at the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California. “It’s. where women of color have their most regular experience with racial years, large national chains, including Eddie Yet more shoplifters are white than black. Ac- Bauer, Avis Rent A Car, Holiday Universal (owner cording to a 1999 FBIcrimereport, 66.1 percent of of Holiday Spa) and Denny’s, have been named in highly publicized lawsuits in which AfricanAmerican customers, who were singled out because of their race, have received millions in settlements or damages. OPRAH’S STORY those arrested for larceny theft (which includes shoplifting and similar nonviolent crimes) were white. Less than half that number, 30.8 percent, were African-American. Patricia J. Williams, a professor at Columbia University Law School,believes that black women. Company Employed to Find, Stop Illegal Oly Broadcasts on the Web BY VINCE HORIUCHI spiders or robots to search for violations. That technology, however,is only partially effective. THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE “It presents a unique problem fora live event like the Olympic Games where youcan't wait for spider technology to scour the Web,” Powell Olympicorganizers are sostrict aboutillegal video of the Games showing upon the Internet, they have hired’a companyjust to monitor violators on the Web. TheInternational Olympic Committee is using Copyright ControlServices, which deals with intellectual properties on the Internet, to make suré that video of any ofthe sports events does notillegally show up ona Website. So if someoneshoots video of Michelle Kwan doing a triple triple combination at the Delta said. “You havetofind it now.” The company) also uses staff members who have collected thousands of Web addresses of former violators and potential violators and routinely monitors them. Finally, Olympic officials will rely on other sources such as sponsors or even private individuals who happen uponan illegal use of symbols or video on the Internet and report the violation to organizers. 5 Center andthenposts it on their Website for ev- Copy Control Services stopped hundredsof infringements, including somenewsorganizations abroad that did not know they were violating 10C rules. x “Very few were from people who knew what they did was wrong,” said David Aikman,IOC’s marketing managerfor business development. will get a message fromofficials. “We're the guys that can actually track and trace wheretheinfringementis taking place and contact the ISPs[internet service providers] or the ownerof the Website of the infringement,” said David Powell, managing director of the London-based Copyright Control Services. Olympic officials are so rigid about keeping illegally distributed video of the Gamesoff the Web because hundreds of millions of dollars “People wanted to do the right thing and didn’t wantto rip off the Olympics. They just didn’t know whatcouldor could notbe done.” Officials have had to fight with some news organizations that believed video should be freely distributed on the Internet and with companies that deliberately used Olympic trademarks to promote themselves. have beenspentbytelevision broadcasters for the exclusiverightto televise the Olympics. “Of the projected $1.3 billion budget for the 2002 Games, 34 percent comes from broadcastrights fees,” said Anne Wall, brand protection manager for the Salt Lake Organizing Committee. NBCalone, whichhastherights to broadcast the games in the United States, has paid more than $280 million to SLOC to show the games on television. Keiee So Olympicofficials will monitor the Web not only to make sure competition video is not shown,but also to make sure Websites do not use Olympic symbols or brands belonging to sponsors withouttheir permission. Andthatincludes domain names with Olympic trademarks, such as Olympics.com To combthe Internet for potential violators, Copyright Control Services will use a combination ofsoftware and experienced surfers. First, they will use whatis known as “spider” technology, software that sends out virtual “Every now and then, we do have people who are more problematic. We did have to file complaints regarding domain namesand trademark violations,” said Bryan Day, SLOC’s brandpro- tection coordinator. The IOC’s Aikman suspects there will not be as many offenders during the Winter Games as during the 2000 Sydney Games, largely because the technology companies with the hardware and know-howto distribute quality video on the Internet are now gone due to the economy's downturn. “There are not that many[sites] that can doit on that kind of quality level,” he said. “The doomsday scenario wehad for Sydney was that someone would set up a rogue server farm to stream [simulcast] the Gameslive on the Internet, and that never materialized.” vince@sltrib.com Olympic @ Continued from C-4 in the finals. You're up on the site and you can be a judge, and it allows you to score in the technical andartistic aspects of her skating,” Feuer said. “Those scores will instantaneously be compared to the audience that will be voting as well as the nine judges.” Olympics.com and nbcolympics.com also will post results of the competitions as they dre happening. “They did a test about a month ago andthelatency [lag time before the results showed up on the site] was 15 seconds, which is just phenomenal,” Feuersaid. “It’s all automated.” Perkins Miller, SLOC’s di- rector of Internet productions, said they expect some 10 million visitors to’ the site during the 17-day Games. Already, there are four to five times the numberof visitors to the 2002 during the same period before the Sydney Games. “We're projecting it to be the largest event Web site in history,” Miller said, vince@sltrib.com UTAH BYWAYS withTom Wharton every Saturday ty CPSC’s toll-free hot line, 800-638-2772. 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Boeing Delays Layoff Notices4 Days ‘THE ASSOCIATEDPRESS announced plans to reduce the aerospace giant’s com- SEATTLE — The second roundof60-day layoff notices for Boeing Co. workers will be distributed Monday and not mercial airplanes workforce by as muchas 30 percent, or about30,000 workers. the day before Thanksgiving as previously planned, com- cuts are necessary after demand for commercial air- panyofficials said. Spokesman Bill Cogswell planes plummeted after the said Monday the company changed the date after realizing it could avoid giving people the bad news just before the holiday andstill meetits schedule for completing the The upcominground ofjob are part of already those announcedin October. Boeing plans to continue handing out 60-day notices around the same time each month until the middleof next year, Cogswell said, when the Sept. 11 terrorist hijackings. In October, Boeing announced first round ofabout 12,000 job cuts to be completed by Dec. 14. About9,000 people layoffs were given layoff notices, and the company could not avoid another 3,000 jobs were to be cut through attrition andlay- cuts by Jan. 25. cuts The company said the job many, people would receive layoff notices Monday, but it is expected to be fewer than ingoff contract workers. Cogswell did not know how are to be mostly completed. Thethird round of notifications are scheduled for about Dec. 21. Cogswell said announcing thoselayoffs just before the Christmas holiday andstill meetits schedule for terminating workers. During the Sydney 2000 Summer Games, eryone to see that day, you can bet that person WebSites Get New Look for a refund. For moreinformation about the products, call the manufacturer or compare anyone else's. But now the ante has been upped. Nowthey want a picture ID,two IDs, to buy a pair of shoes not an expensivepair, but an or- Winfrey then called the store from a pay phone profiling,” she adds. Someexperts believeretail racism might be on the rise — partly because of the increase in © Retail racism is just about everywhere, says use of the products immediatelyand return themto the store where purchased signature with the one on yourcredit card and not dinary pair.” Kweisi Mfume,presidentof the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, says retail racism can be stopped. “You don't buy across thestreet to ask if the store was open, and Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Unless otherwise indicated, discontinue are now put through more hoops when theyshop. “It used to be that they would just compare your nobody let us in,” she recalls. They walked away, then noticed two white womenentering thestore. she was assured that it was. But when she went backacross the street and rangthe doorbell again, the employees would notlet herin. THE SHOPLIFTING ISSUE Retailers note that shoplifters cost their industry more than $8.5 billion a year. This, they say, necessitates “retail loss prevention” — i.e., measures to curb theft. They claim that mistakes, such Safety Commission and the National ChevronTexaco Boosts Job-Cut Figure about 8 percent of its work ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO. ChevronTexaco Corp. will eliminate nearly 500 more jobs than managementantici- pated as part of the newly merged oil giant’s effort to save an additional $600 million annually in its combined operations. Underthe more aggressive cost-cutting program an- nounced Monday, the San Francisco-based company will eliminate 4,500 jobs, or force, instead of the 4,000 layoffs envisioned in October 2000 when Chevron _announced its plans to buy Texacofor $39 billion. The extra job cuts are being made as ChevronTexaco raises its estimated cost savings from the mergerto $1.8 billion from management's original estimate of $1.2 billion annually. 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